To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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